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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25
THE ARCAABBoT WINNER.

Special Correspondence

II- NcIlh NrNr Hcutty, IA n Beue-
d.ctine Monks.
Special Correspondence.
EFtr}N Pa. Dec rchabbot Bon
ifacc VI INNER. the superior Of the Benc-
dic,nc monks in the United States, died
at st Niuctn abbey, near this place, re-
Gently, a. tlc advanced age of 7S years.
Archabbo, WINNER was born at Thai
mnssine, in Bavaria, on Jan A. 1909.
Being stations his parents gave him the
adNahtas', of "A classical education, send
ing him to Ratisbon, where he studied
for eight years He then entered the uni
vcrsity OF Munich with The idea Of fitting
himself toi the profession Of the law
y preference for the church, however,
later induccd him to return to RatiSbon
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

fhe annual meeting of the stock
holders OF Waco National Bank will
be held at the office OF the bank on
Tuesday, January 10, 1888, st 10
O'Clock a. m, for the purpose OF cleo
ting directors for the ensuing year.
}. X. ROSE, cashier.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

Prick ey Ash Bitters warm up and
ivnigorate the stomach, improves and
strengthens the digestive orgnas,
opens the pores, promotes prespira.
ton, and equslizes the circulation. AS
n corrector Of disordered system
there is nothing to equal it.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

We are willing to lose $4,000 this
month on our goods, providing we
can raise the cash, and we have re
duced our prices to effect that object.
If you need any clothing, dry goods,
boots and shoes, come, and you will
save money at Levine Bros.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

braving the storm. which rag d WITH
out, UNNAMED HIM once more
- on viii rouse the servants aud
alarm the neighbor- quickly, quickly,
Hugh; canno, leave her pointing o
/ a ce's room, Gust yet, her waking
will be worse than death"
/ ran down the stairs. but there Wls
no need to rouse the house; every
-ou in it was stirring aud alive
with curiosity and fright
70 each available ucighbor, mes
scnger was sent aud with such a re-
manned behind, made hssty prepG-
rations tor the search. The Nesey
homestead stood midway between
the village N and tbs yet larger
city Of C. a public road con-
meeting the two, swept past, not two
hundred yards from the front gate,
but circling about aud leading INTO
this road were numerous lanes and
by-paths. 1t was impossible to tel,
which the fugitive had chosen, but |
judged it most likely she hed gone
towards the city. Protecting our
selves as best we could against tha
cold. | detailed two men to scour
each known pathway and was about
myself to take the maiu road leading
to the city, wnen Vesey and his wife
stood before me. Both were wrapped
securely agsin-t the storm aud SAW,
liz ,i W, 'ii0a.. ~ J"ia 'N
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her3in tb,. worlJ if God wi Is il
no. -, oann,
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hor 'to fona tb,'r' uo1 an ona7,,.h dared
mo, @ 'Iu inoL nnon Tmrimg to Ve.nv il
a,,iNi "o' ,VI', - ,,,o AZ, sorrow p,s nve,
hit,nror I'nb,jI hy no ,,.h hona as
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,nor,a "u, NV for this uiah,,. worE was but
,'0' ,to fru,t Of sonto snIyn hyti. AVN
band n = ''' " ' ''
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;,pnaiinrtIv and tSen tho door swun9
nran and tho ri.rbl Led swailowe1
hrru Nescv s1J / lurried sfrcr
her and the sesrch hcoan- The st1tm
yoa ,t,u ot il. llgHt The wiu,s
,vhistlnd and shrinked seeming TO
Gg6t ngain.t us "a we bnttled our
,vav atom hv str, aud the hurrvipp
snnw cInngod nlir feet and obscnrej
more aud moro surroundino objects
ThouGh she chung TO her hnsband,.
arm fhe tlot moro thsn once struck
the wrrtchod mother with such VIC
lance She lo.t nor fo,tinU aud sapk
tr,mi Inc IN the snow. 6ut nothing
could juduc. her TO abandon her
oue,t. or rest even for a moment.
iiour sf.er hour She
I,nilnd on NOT lagping
but leadiuo the van. and despite her
weakness and dosDsIr sueakii,y hone
tul words. crcouragin1. suyqes,ing.
insnirino The other. iii every foot OF
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

Does food refuse to stay on your
stomach Are yon afflicted with dys-
pepsih: If so take Morris Csscariue
aud be relieved.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25
Rest Holiday Gift-

An Emerson Piano.
A Msthushek Piano.
A Steinway Piano.
A Weber Piano.
A Goggan q Bro. Organ.
These are to be had only at Thomas
Goggan Il Bro, No. 16e South Fourth
street
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

a Bodeck's cheap Tailor shop
Scouring,dyelug aud repairing neat
ly done al satisfaction guaranteed
Corner Franklin and 6. ets
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
our store viii remain open until p.
IN, Saturday until 10 p. III.
Sanger Brothers.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

Hard and soft, best varieties, prompt
delivery, for cash only. Waco Cosl
Yard, John Farley, proprietor,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-12-25

New buckwheat Hour at b. A.'Lit
tie IL Co.'S.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-27
New York Negro in London.

| have been living tbs summer in what are
called in London residential fats, near HYDE
park. There are several porters employed
about these fats. One Of them is a New
York negro, who acquired his education and
knowledge Of mankind as porter in a Pull
MN car and afterward in one Of the New
York hotels. He wears a double breasted
brass buttoned blue frock livery, with round
fiat topped cap, which has a square visor
He is a most imposing Individual He has
the soft, melodious voice Of the best type Of
his race. He is a clean, manly looking fellow.
He is the hero of ali the cooks and house
maids Of the entire fats. This Porter is on
duty at night. He always moves about
escorted by several admiring white servant
girls. He hardly ever has less than six in
his company They stand in the most adj
miring positions. No Bunthorne was ever
surrounded by more complete postures OF
alteration.
But this porter takes all this admiration
gravely. He evidently has a very poor opin-
ion OF white people who run after negroes.
He permits the servant girls to run after him.
but not much more. All of the girls speak
to him with the prefix of Mr." before his
name. None OF the white porters are hon
ored in this way. They are all called by
their first names, although two or three of
them are men advanced in life and the heads
Of large families. The colored porter is al
ways Mr.. Brooks. One of the tiGiest of these
servant girls, born and reared in the coun-
try and who has not yet lost the fresh color
acquired in her farm life, expressed the other
day a fcrvent desire that when she had a
husband she hoped he would be just such
nice black man as Mr.. Brooks.-T c. Craw-
ford in New York World
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-27
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CURIOSlTlES IN CLOCKS.
Timepieces Made Up in Various Odd an
Handsome Designs.

Timepieces Made Up in Various Odd and
Handsome Designs.
''The latest thing in clocks is the imitation
of machinery of different kinds" said sales
man in an importing house. eve have just
received some very odd designs in this line
from Paris Here is clock that would make
fine present for railroad man." and he
exhibited a beautiful white bronze model of
a steam boiler. 1t had a steam gauge, safety
valve and speed regulator, and thermo-
meter took the place of the water gauge On
the furnace door was the dial of the clock
and above it was a barometer The whole
apparatus was about ten inches high and was
mounted on plush platform The clock
was running and the pendant balls Of the
speed regulator were whirling around mer-
rily and doing the work Of the pendulum
Now, here is something that would please
anybody" said the clerk, and he showed a
handsome windmill in bronze and gold, with
a clock face let into the side of the tower
The arms of the windmill were moving in
such natural way that one could easily i'm
agine that he felt the breeze that propelled
them. Another design was a well, built of
tiles held in place by gilt frame, and an
openwork well house overhead in which a
bucket was hanging suspended by chain.
The bucket served as a pendulum and swung
in circle most mysteriously, for it did not
seem TO have any connection with the works
of the clock, which were concealed in the
well
Here is something unique, said the clerk,
calling the reporters attention to an elabor-
ate affair. This is a perfect miniature of
boiler set in a brick foundation There are
all Of the valves, gauges, steam pipes and
connections complete. The end of the boiler
serves as the dial Of the clock, and here at
one side is a steam hammer moving up and
down with great regularity, ana stirling
bar of brass that Is held by a workman. That
is designed IS present for a manufacturer.
1t cost 500. Here is freak Of the designer
that is very neat 1t represents an old
fashioned vertical saw at work. ! workman
stands at the bench pushing board against
the On the front OF the bench is the
dial of the clock. The great beauty OF these
designs is the perfection to which the small
est det2!.- are carried. We cannot tura out
such work in this country; it would he too
expensive, as it is all hand work, and al the
wages We pay our artisans these clocks would
cost a small fortune. New York Mail and
EXDTcSS
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-27
m TIE BRITISH MUSEUM.
nr. Holmes Writes of Some OF Its Won
ders-Huw to See the Sights.

pr. Holmes writes of Some OF Its Won.
ders-RUw to See the Sights.
made but two brief visits to the Brit
ish museum, and | can easily instruct my
reader so that he VIII have no difficulty,
if he follow my teaching, in learning how
not TO see il. When he has a spare hour
at his disposal, let him drop in at the mu-
seam and wander among its books and its
various collections. lie w; know as
much about ii as the fly that buzzes in at
one window and out at another. Ii
were asked whether | brought away any
thing from my two visits | should say
certainly did. The fly sees some things.
not very inteIliCently, but he cannot help
seeing them. The great, round reading
room, with It's silent students. impressed
me very much. | looked at once for the
ElCin marbles, but casts aad photographs
and enCravings had made me familiar
with their chief features. l thought |
knew something of tie sculptures
brought from Nineveh. but | was aston
iShed. almost awe struck. at the sight of
those mighty images which mingled with
the visions of the Hebrew prophets. die
not marvel more at the skill and labor
expended upon them by the Assyrian
artists than | did at the enterprise and
audacity which had brought them safely
from the mounds under which they were
buried TO the light of day and the heart of
Il great modern city.
| never thought that ! should live to see
the BirS Nimroud laid open, and the tab
lets in which the history Of Nebuchad-
nezzar was recorded spread before me
The Empire of the Spade in the world OF
history was founded at Nineveh by
Iayard, a great province added TO it by
SChliemann. ard is boundary extended
by numerous explorers, some Of whom
are diligently ut work at the present day.
feel very grateful that RAINY Of lis rev
Citations have been made since / have
been tenant Of the travelling residence
which holds 50 many secrets in its re
cesSes. There Is one lesson 10 he got from
a visit of IN hour or two TO the British
museum-namely, The fathomleSs abyss
of our own ignorance. One is almost
ashamed Of his little paltry hearJbeats in
the presence OF the rushing and roaring
torrents of Niagara. So If he hes pub
hshed a little book or two, collected
few fossils, or coins, or vases, he Is
crushed by the vastness Of the treasures
in the library and the collections of this
universe OF knowledge.
/ have shown how not to see the British
museum. Twill tell how 10 see it Take
lodgings next door TO it-in q garnet, Il
you cannot afford anything better-and
pass all your days at the museum during
the whole period of your natural life
At three score and ten you will have some
faint conception of the contents, siGuifi-
canoe and the value Of this great British
institution, which is as nearly as any one
spot the noaud vital Of human civilization,
a stab at which by the dagger Of anarchy
would fitly begin the reign OF chaos
Oliver Wendell Holmes in Atlantic
Monthly.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-27

At Acosta a Roman metal pen has been
found. 1t is n bronze pen slit in exactly
the same fashion as the present steel pen.
The Dutch invented metal pen in I7l7.
but it was not until many years later that
the hand-screw press, which inside the
first cheap steel pen, came into use.-Bos-
ton Budget,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-27
FOR SALE.

Improved and Unimproved City Property
on the best improved streets in the city.
Lots on the inside on street Car lines and IN
outside additions. Suburban lots on the east
side in Maple Grove addition.
Business lots and business blocks for sale
at special bargains. Several fine tracts near
the city for sub-dividing and plating.
Improved farms and grass lands in all
parts of the county; also ranches in this and
adjoining counties.
All parties wishing to buy would do well
to call and examine my list before buying
elsewhere
w. A. THOMAS,
The Oldest Real Estate Agency In Wichita.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-20
What Kind of Farming Pays Best2


make little mathematical calcula-
ton to prove it Take one acre of
land in grass that produces500 pounds
of hay. 1t will cost s3 to harvest;
the fencing, taxes and interest will
eat up So, making S5, which is all the
hay is worth, leaving not one cent
profit on the land.
Take another acre that produces
three tons, worth $780, we Will say that
it costs SIS to hsrvest il amt that the
interest, taxes and fencing amounts
to 50, and We have c.eas profit off
one of S23. Again take one acre of
potatoes where ene land is not more
than half plowed, half narrowed, half
planted and half hoed; it it will pro-
duce IS bushels of rather inferior
potatoes, worth usually about rs
cents per bushel, or SlS.75. 1t will
cost that to do tie work. and tine use
of the land, manure and taxes are so
much money lost.
Take the same acre and care fer
them as a farmer ought to and raise
800 bushels, worth 40 cents per
bushel, or $3.50. and you can pay for
the work, the mannre and taxes and
have snug little sum left. Again,
feed COW 21 tons of hay worth S25,
and make 1875 ponds of butter worth
S25; thus the manure is left to pay
for pasturlng the COW through the
summer, the interest on the money,
and taking care of her year. And
this is just what many of our farmers
are doing. Another man takes an
other and much better COW, feeds her
the same quantity of hay, and SIS
worth of grain or roots, and put IS
worth of extra time in taking care of
her, making the cost of keeping
S45; but he will make 800 pounds of
butter, worth $50. giving s45 clear
profit on a single COW.
Follow the same reckoning through
an the operations Of the farm for one
year, and you will see why the one
farmer and his family wear the same
clothes at the end they did at the be.
ginning; why the farm wears the
same mortgage, with no other adorn
ments; why the farm is destined te
be deserted in few years. This il
all the result of shiftless farming. Or
the other hand, you see everything
bearing makes of prosperity. the farm
clear of all mortgages, adorned with
nice, commodious buildings anc
good fences, and the farmer and hi.
wife contented and happy-the result
of good farming.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-20
A Provoked st. PauI Girl.

The girls of the wild West admire
men of original thought. A Dakota
miss who was attending Hamiine
University, near st. Paul, is said to
have became very much agitated be-
cause the professor who conducted
morning prayers invariably followed
the same form of suppIication. She
endured this ipfiction until it became
in,olerable, aud the other morning in
the midst of the prayer paralyzed the
professor and the whole school by
yelling out "Chestnuts!" The young
lady has since returned to the quiet
precincts Of her own home.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-20

a StoCh water l6n scarce.
II the cold weather Is over.
II Mexico hasn't dandy police
force.
II Mexico won't boom in the
Fpring.
Ii it is settled who will be the
next Mayor.
II Mexico could get along without
water-works.
If Mexico ought not to have more
amusements.
If the back bone Of winter has no,
been broken.
If there won't be building boom
in the spring.
If the Mexico poor are not getting
along all o. X.
II Mexico hasn't we'll kept side.
walks and streets.
If sensations are not quite plentl
full about Mexico.
Who attended the champagne sup
per the other night.
If Eastern men will not buy il
Audrain this spring.
Whether we will have primaries il
tue city election or not.
If the Hardin College chapel fun,
should not be doomed.
If a billiard tournament once in
while is not a good thing.
If third class charter would no
be good thing for Mexico.
If the Council will ever contrac
for all-night electric lights.
Who can find fault with the waite
furnished by the Water works.
If the hole iu the ground won't b
down hundred feet by spring.
If a new bridge isn't needed owe
the railroad at South jefferson st.
Why Audrain county can't hay
rock roads now, We are out of debt.
II every vacant store and house
Mexico won't be rented by spring.
If the voudoo doctor didn't creai
quite stir among the colored PEI
pie.
If Burhop is not one of the be-
street commissioners Mexico has eve
had
If the Council will dispose of tt
old fire engine, and put the money !
new fire hose.
Why all the, stockholders in u
Mining Co. don't pay up, so BORN
can be commenced.
If man can expect his town
boom If he buys his groceries In s
Louis, when he can get them just 4
cheap at home.
| If there is anyone in Mexico wh
cannot afford 2 cents a day for
local daily; If there is, the poor con
mite should wait on them.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-20
The Armstrong Murder at odessa.


LEXINGTON, Mo-, Jan. 14.-Abour
three days ago, under date of Han
nibal, telegram appeared in Kan
sas City paper which created great
deal of excitement here and at Odes-
sa, as it purported to be the clearing
up of the killing of Mr.. Judson C.
Armstrong, prominent farmer OF
this county, which occurred in 1884
The telegram, though brief, gave the
details of the crime, by whom it was
committed, and the motive which
actuated it. 1t is as follows:
On the morning of July "a, 1884
the body of Judson C. Armstrong,
prominent farmer of Bates City,
was found in horribly mangled con-
dition on the Chicago & Alton rail
way track near Odessa, q freight
train having passed over it. Why
Dir. Armstrong was on the railroad
track and how he met his death has
remained a mystery until to-day
when his brother, J. NJ. Armstrong
Cashier of the Commercial Bank OF
this city, received word from the
Warden of the State Penitentiary al
Jefferson City that man named
Durbin, one of the five brothers sen
fenced for train robbing, had died
and his death bed confession stated
that he had murdered Judson G
Armstrong. He said that Armstrong
had been to Kansas City with stock
and had received several hundred
dollars in cash. That he knew of the
transaction and determined to have
+! the money. That in order to rol
Armstrong and make good his escape
he killed him aud then placed hi
body on the track to divert suspicion
The Globe Democrat correspondent
addressed a letter of inquiry to War
den Marmaduke, asking for furthe
details. The following short not
received from that gentleman by hin
makes the circumstances SurrOundln
Mr. Armstrong; death as complicate
and mysterious as ever:
l can not answer your questions
except to enter a general denial
None Of The Durbins have died. A
of them are in good health, excer
one, and he is at work most of til
time. They or none of them hav
made any statements to me or an
one else, so far as know, concernin
the killing of Armstrong. They hav
ali been good prisoners since the
have been here.
| The Durbins, six in number, wei
sent to the peuitentiary from tn
county in March, 1885, for terms ae
gregating 116 years. They, wit
others, had Systematically plundere
freight cars on the Alton road fl
nearly two years, their pilferiugs I
merchandise amounting to abe,
$40, 900.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-20

IT WOULD be interesting to know il
the Massachusetts woman speaks
with authority when she says that
her sex will remove their high hats
and bonnets at theatres if the men
will stop going out between the acts
for refreshments. 1t would be well
for the women, however, to make the
experiment of removing their hats
first. since the men now claim that
they become so exhausted as matters
r.t~'ad in trying to see the stage that
they cannot get through the evening
without stimulants.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-20
JACKSON AND DEMOCRACY.


Thurman at the Jackson celebration
in Columbus was chiefly devoted to
enforcing upon Democrats the i'm
portance of holding fast to the true
and sound Democratic doctrine of
the least government and to opposing
the Federalistic Republican idea of a
strong centralized government.
1t is strange that any Democrats
should have lax notions as to this
cardinal principle Of Democracy, but
ever since the war there has been
evidence or tendency to stray away
from the old and safe landmarks. If
there had not been, we should not
hear people seriously contending that
there is little or no difference between
the Democratic party and the Repub-
lican party. There is and ever must
be vital difference between them
in regard to the extent and sphere of
government; but it cannot be denied
that occasional Democratic lapses in
the direction of Federalism have
given some, though small, ground for
the reproach that it has borrowed
from its enemy.
The great mass of Democracy
however, is free and pure from the
faint of centralism. 1t is still true
to the old Democratic principles and
to the great Democratic names. Still,
at time when the Democracy is con-
fronted with the danger of a personal
instead of q Democratic administra-
ton, and of a policy which seeks to
eliminate party principles and serv-
ices and substitute schoolmasters'
examinations as to the test of fitness
for public office, it is fitting and fort
unate that one of the last survivors
of the older generation of Democrats,
a great constitutional lawyer. a plain
Jacksonian Democrat, should again
remind the party what its essential
principles are.
The letter read at the same occa
sion from Mr.. Henry Watterson
assailing civil service reform was
likewise timely and thoroughly in the
Jacksonian spirit. Andrew Jackson,
born to poverty and scanty learning,
never had the advantages which
would have enabled him to shine in 8
civil service examination. When he
came to high public service he believ'
ed in sticking to his friends. With
his intense hatred of England and
his intense belief in the people, he
would have called civil service reform
the humbug of humbugs, as it is
and if our fathers had been foolish
enough to anticipate Eatonism, An
drew Jackson would have fought il
tooth and nail to his dying day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-01-20
Mr.. r. J. Powell, of New Florence

Mr.. r. J. Powell, of New Florence.
was in Mexico this week on business
and called. He informs US he is 60
ing to Jefferson City to fight the
scheme to have q term Of court at
Montgomery City. He says 2.100
out Of 3,400 voters in the county
oppose it, and that it would be a big
additional tax. He also says that out
of the last 4S0 cases brought in the
court only II came from Montgom'
cry City, and that he thinks the
courts should all be held at the coun
ty seat, DanvilIe.